Re­quest for sug­ges­tions: age­ing and data-mining

Ex­pected value es­ti­mates you can take (some­what) literally

Pop­u­la­tion ethics and util­ity indifference

Open thread, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30, 2014

Shop for Char­ity: how to earn proven char­i­ties 5% of your Ama­zon spend­ing in commission

Unique­ness of UDT for trans­par­ent universes

Im­prov­ing the modal UDT op­ti­mal­ity result

Break­ing the vi­cious cycle

[Link] If we knew about all the ways an In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion could go wrong, would we be able to avoid them?

More mar­bles and Sleep­ing Beauty

TV’s “Ele­men­tary” Tack­les Friendly AI and X-Risk—“Bella” (Pos­si­ble Spoilers)

Mus­ings on the LSAT: “Rea­son­ing Train­ing” and Neuroplasticity

Meetup : Utrecht: a cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Meetup : Utrecht

Meetup : Utrecht: Ra­tion­al­ity Games

When should an Effec­tive Altru­ist be veg­e­tar­ian?

Link: xkcd 1450: AI-Box Experiment

Me­mory Im­prove­ment: Mnemon­ics, Tools, or Books on the Topic?

New LW Meetup: Glasgow

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Meetup : West LA—The Rel­a­tivity of Wrong

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Rump Session

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Experimentation

LessWrong on XKCD

xkcd on the AI box experiment

Trust­wor­thy au­to­mated philos­o­phy?

How can one change what they con­sider “fun”?

Nar­cis­sis­tic Contrarianism

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

Ir­ra­tional­ism on Cam­pus?

What do you mean by Pas­cal’s mug­ging?

Link: Si­mu­lat­ing C. Elegans

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup in my flat

The Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism is hiring to fill five roles in re­search, op­er­a­tions and outreach

Bayes Academy: Devel­op­ment re­port 1

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: Co­de­name Bilderberg

I Want To Believe: Ra­tional Edition

Meetup : Saint Peters­burg, Rus­sia meetup: “Low hang­ing fruit”

Meetup : MelbLW: Novem­ber So­cial Meetup

[Link] Chalmers on Com­pu­ta­tion: A first step From Physics to Me­taethics?

Fi­nan­cial Effec­tive­ness Repository

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 10: In­stru­men­tally con­ver­gent goals

Neo-re­ac­tionar­ies, why are you neo-re­ac­tionary?

Is this dark arts and if it, is it jus­tified?

Stable self-im­prove­ment as a re­search problem

AI caught by a mod­ule that coun­ter­fac­tu­ally doesn’t exist

Can sci­ence come to un­der­stand con­scious­ness? A prob­lem of philo­soph­i­cal zom­bies (Yes, I know, P-zom­bies again.)

Sys­temic risk: a moral tale of ten in­surance companies

I just in­creased my Altru­is­tic Effec­tive­ness and you should too

Ly­ing in ne­go­ti­a­tions: a max­i­mally bad problem